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444 | He Knoweth Thy Walking · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Music.
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  The Lord is faithful to provide for all of our needs. Yet so often we forget
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  who it is that truly provides for us.
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  We get caught up in the routines of life and lose sight of the one who provides.
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  When we forget that God is our provider, it becomes easy to lose trust.
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  But scripture reminds us again and again that God is near, that he sees us,
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  he knows our journey, and he provides.
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  In Deuteronomy 2, 7, we read, For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all thy works of thy hand.
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  He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness.
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  These forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee. Thou hast lacked nothing.
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  Join us in today's podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Erica Close takes
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  us through the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 2,
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  to explore how God's provision sustains us, not just in the past,
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  but in every day of our lives.
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  Thank you for joining us in today's podcast.
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  We're continuing in the book of Deuteronomy, and today we are in Deuteronomy chapter 2.
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  And I think it's important that as we look at this book that we remember that
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  as Christians, we live on this side of the cross.
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  But the lessons that we find in the book of Deuteronomy, like all the lessons
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  that we find in the Old Testament, are still given to us, and they are still lessons for us.
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  So today's key verse is Deuteronomy 2.7, which says, For the Lord thy God hath
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  blessed thee in all the works of thy hand.
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  He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness. These 40 years the Lord
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  thy God hath been with thee, thou hast lacked nothing.
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  Today we're reading in Deuteronomy chapter 2, which is verses 1 through 37.
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  Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red
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  Sea, as the Lord spake unto me, and we compassed Mount Sair many days.
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  And the Lord spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough. Turn ye northward.
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  And commanded thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your
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  brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Sair, and they shall be afraid of you.
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  Take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore.
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  Meddle not with them, for I will not give you of their land.
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  No, not so much as a footbreadth, because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
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  Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat. And ye shall also buy
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  water of them for money, that ye may drink.
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  For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand.
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  He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness.
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  These forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee, thou hast lacked nothing.
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  And when we passed by from our brethren, the children of Esau, which dwelt in Sair.
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  Through the way of the plains from Elath and from Ezangabir,
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  we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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  And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them
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  in battle, for I will not give thee of their land for a possession,
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  because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
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  The Emims dwelt there in times past, a people great and many and tall as the
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  Anakims, which were also accounted as giants as the Anakims,
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  but the Moabites call them Emims.
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  The Horems also dwelt in Syir before time, but the children of Esau succeeded
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  them when they had destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead,
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  as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.
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  Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
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  And in the space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over
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  the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men
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  of war were wasted out from among the hosts as the Lord sware unto them.
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  For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them to destroy them from among
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  the hosts until they were consumed.
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  So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among.
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  The people, that the Lord spake unto me, saying, Thou art to pass over through
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  Ar, the coast of Moab this day.
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  And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
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  distress them not, nor meddle with them.
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  For I will not give thee the land of the children of Ammon any possession,
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  because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
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  That was also accounted a land of giants. Giants dwelt there in an old time,
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  and the Ammonites called them Zemzumans, a people great and many and tall as the Anakims.
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  But the Lord destroyed them before them, and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead.
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  As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the
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  Horems from before them, and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead, even unto this day.
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  And the Avims, which dwelt in Hazarim, even unto Azzah, the Kaphtarims,
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  which came forth out of Kaphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
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  Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon.
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  Behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land.
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  Begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
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  This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the
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  nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee and shall
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  tremble and be in anguish because of thee.
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  And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kidamoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon
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  with words of peace, saying, Let me pass through thy land, and I will go by the highway.
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  I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. Verse,
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  Thou shalt sell me meat for money that I may eat, and give me water for money that I may drink.
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  Only I will pass through on my feet.
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  As the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, and the Moabites,
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  which dwelt in Ard, did unto me, until I shall pass over Jordan into the land
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  which the Lord our God giveth us.
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  But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him, For the Lord thy God
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  hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him
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  into thy hand as appeareth this day.
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  And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before
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  thee, begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
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  Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
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  And the Lord our God delivered him before us, and we smote him and his sons and all his people.
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  And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men and the
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  women and the little ones of every city.
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  We left none to remain, only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves,
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  and the spoil of the cities which we took.
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  From Aror, which is by the brink of the river Arnon, and from the city that
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  is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us.
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  The Lord our God delivered all unto us, only unto the land of the children of Ammon.
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  Thou camest not, nor unto the place of the river Jabbok, unto the cities and
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  the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbade us.
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  So chapter 2 of Deuteronomy continues to tell the story of the Israelites wandering in the desert.
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  The Lord commanded the Israelites to pass through the country of Esau.
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  And even though the descendants of Esau would be afraid of the Israelites,
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  the Israelites weren't to meddle with them, but only to purchase meat and water with them.
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  I love that verse because I think,
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  how often does the Lord tell us not to meddle with something, right?
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  Meddling is just getting in the weeds when we do not need to do so.
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  So they were not to fight...
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  With the descendants of Esau, but only to purchase meat and water.
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  And the meat and the water showed one of the many ways that the Lord provided
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  for the Israelites in that time they were in the wilderness.
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  Once they passed through the land of Esau, the Israelites passed through the land of Moab.
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  And again, the Lord tells them to not distress the Moabites or to contend with
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  them in battle, because that land was promised to another people, to the children of Lot.
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  The children of Lot were also to receive the land of the children of Amm,
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  another people that the Israelites were to pass through again without conquering.
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  They were told just pass through them.
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  So the Lord is taking these Israelites on a journey and it's a long one because
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  we read that 38 years have passed since the journey began.
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  And in that 38 years, all the generation of men who had come out of Egypt,
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  Moses calls them the men of war, had passed away.
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  And that was just part of the Lord's plan. The Lord had a plan that because
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  of their disobedience that we read about in Deuteronomy chapter one,
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  they were not gonna enter the promised land.
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  So then unlike the battle that we read about with the Amorites back in chapter
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  1, the Israelites in chapter 2 are called to battle with the king of Heshon.
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  And the Lord revealed to Moses that they were to go up into that land to possess it and to take it.
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  This wasn't a land they were passing through. This was one they were going to take.
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  And the Lord gave Moses a promise. He said,
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  This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the
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  nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee and shall
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  tremble and be in anguish because of thee.
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  So Moses, receiving that promise, walks in obedience.
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  Right? He sends messengers ahead to the king and says, Let me pass through thy land.
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  I will go along by the highway. I will neither turn unto the right hand nor the left.
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  Thou shalt sell me meat for money that I may eat and give me water for money that I may drink.
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  Only will I pass through on my feet.
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  The king, however, had a hardened heart, and he wasn't going to let the Israelites
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  pass through like Moses had requested.
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  So this time, in spite of all these circumstances, the Israelites headed into battle.
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  And this time, unlike what happened in Deuteronomy chapter 1,
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  the Israelites were victorious.
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  So when the Israelites are in the desert, like we read in Deuteronomy chapter 2,
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  in spite of all the circumstances, in spite of all the people that they have
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  to pass through, in spite of all the wanderings that they have to take,
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  the Lord provides for their every need.
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  Deuteronomy 2.7 reminded them. Deuteronomy 2.7 says, For the Lord thy God hath
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  blessed thee in all the works of thy hand. he knoweth thy walking.
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  I love that. I want the Lord to know my walking.
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  He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness.
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  These 40 years the Lord thy God hath been with thee, thou hast lacked nothing.
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  Moses reminds them, they may have been wandering in the wilderness,
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  but at no time, despite all of their grumblings and all of their complaining,
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  have they lacked anything.
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  This is a really special verse that tells us that the Lord is going to bless the work of our hands.
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  He knows the paths that we take through this life.
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  And even when it seems like we're wandering in the desert, the Lord provides for us.
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  We know from Romans 2.11 that God is no respecter of persons.
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  And when we read of things like this, that he did for the Israelites,
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  we can be confident that he's going to do the same for us.
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  In chapter 2 of Deuteronomy, we see that there are so many ways that the Lord
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  might choose to provide for us.
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  Sometimes it might be like a miracle, like when manna showed up every day for
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  the Israelites. We can read about that in Exodus chapter 16.
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  Or sometimes someone else brings food, like when the ravens brought food to Elijah.
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  We can read about that in 1 Kings chapter 17. team.
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  Sometimes he might give us money to purchase what we need, like we read about
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  in Deuteronomy chapter 2.
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  But whatever method God uses to provide for us, the origin of that provision
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  is always the same. It's God himself.
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  All that we have comes to us from God himself.
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  Just like the Lord provided for all the Israelites needed in the wilderness.
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  He's going to provide for all of our needs.
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  That's a New Testament promise too, found in Philippians 4.13.
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  So many times it is really easy for us to forget who provides for us.
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  We get so caught up in earning our salary and paying our bills that we forget
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  who it is who provides us the ability to do the job that he also provided,
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  that we might receive that paycheck that we get.
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  When we forget that it's God who provides for everything we have,
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  it's really easy to lose the ability to trust him or even the ability to want
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  to trust him because we start to put our trust in ourselves.
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  We need to keep our eyes, in our hearts, fixed and focused on the many ways
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  that God provides for us.
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  We need to have our eyes open so that we can see his provision and use that
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  knowledge of his provision to build our faith and the trust that we have in him.
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  We need to hold our faith. We need to hold the trust that we have in Him closely
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  in our hearts and believe that all the ways that the Lord has provided for us
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  this day and in days past,
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  He will continue to do in the days in the future.
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  Remember that you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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